There’s something so rewarding about having a trailer floor that one can safely walk on with bare feet, especially after many months of fearing extreme bodily harm by doing so. There was a constant risk of tetanus, splinters, impaling on…
There comes a moment in every long project where you panic a little lot and question whether you did everything that you should have up to that point, and whether it was done correctly at that. With an Airstream renovation,…
The day finally arrived: it was time to run new propane lines under the trailer and drill some rather large holes in the pretty new floor. Sigh. It couldn’t stay pristine forever. The good news is that propane lines and…
The finally weather warmed up here in Tennessee, and that could only mean one thing: time to get working even faster on insulating the trailer! 😰With aluminum being such an excellent conductor of heat, it very quickly turns toaster-oven inside…
There was finally a long stretch of dry weather, and that meant it was time for new window glass installation! What a big difference in appearance and thermal performance between the new tinted, tempered glass and the old clear (well,…
When this big shiny trailer first came home, it still had a lot of the original systems that no longer worked and needed replacement – primarily the old water heater and furnace, which each seemingly weighed a ton. The new…
With the frame prep work finally done – after what seemed like ages – it was time to install the new trailer subfloor! I don’t even remember what it was like to walk in the trailer without balancing precariously on…
We had a surprise January warmup to 70°F (21°C) in Tennessee today, so it was finally the perfect time to paint the trailer’s frame with some automotive chassis rust inhibitor, after weeks of waiting for cooperative weather. While waiting to…
It was a slower than anticipated start on the Airstream renovation. I’ve been inundated by work (a necessity to pay for this project), plus the weather is turning wetter and colder here in East Tennessee. Dismantling the original interior so…
